Article Source: InterPress Service

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 28 - The world's forests and jungles are much more than carbon storage sites and compensation for greenhouse emissions, experts and activists point out to governments that are negotiating a new global climate change treaty.

This was one of the main conclusions reached by the 13th World Forestry Congress, held Oct. 18-23 in Buenos Aires, which drew more than 4,000 academics, experts, business leaders, government and multilateral officials and representatives of a broad range of non-governmental organisations.

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